Thursday, November 15, 2007

Ram Playoff Notes

The Reidsville Rams will play their 58th playoff game when another Hillsborough team - Cedar Ridge comes into Community Stadium tonight... The Rams, who are 40-17 all time, enter tonight's game 12-0, No. 1 in the NCHSAA 2-A state poll, No. 1 again according to www.masseyratings.com's 2-A classification and the top seed in the 2-AA East Regional bracket... The last Reidsville 12-0 start came in 1993... Cedar Ridge opened its doors in 2002, so tonight's meeting will be the first ever between the two... The Red Wolves are the 73rd different team to face the Rams all-time... Head coach Jimmy Teague, who is 178-40 (.817) all-time at Reidsville, has guided the Rams to a 32-12 (.727) playoff mark... Over the past five seasons, Teague's teams have won 21 of the last 24 playoff games (.875)... Four of Reidsville's 11 regular-season opponents this year are in still alive in playoff action tonight - Northeast Guilford, Southern Guilford, Winston-Salem Atkins and Burlington Cummings... Wilmington Hoggard (1) and Scotland County (11) - both 4-A schools - are the two teams the Rams scrimmaged back in August and those two are in action tonight... The Red Wolves are led by Domonic Currie, referred to as one of the best running backs in the Hillsborough area... Currie has rushed for 1,793 yards and 19 touchdowns this season for the Cedar Ridge (7-5).... Reidsville running back Tayon Graves is just 147 yards shy of 5,000 for his career... Only two running backs - McMichael's Kenny Harris and Southern Guilford's William Graves - have gone over 100 yards against the Rams' defense, which is allowing 175.1 yards per game and 10.7 points per game to its opposition...